In 1953, he represented defendants in the Baton Rouge bus boycott, a model for later activism, after returning from World War II as a wounded veteran of D-Day.
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Johnnie Jones Sr., a Louisiana civil rights attorney and decorated World War II veteran wounded during the D-Day invasion of Normandy has died. He was 102.